Dunk Island Queensland
The boats depart from Clump Point Jetty and take you right to the Dunk Island Resort, which has accommodation and a restaurant. Update: as of 2012, the resort is currently closed.
Poster by AllPosters. Click on thumbnail to buy
Beaches and Water Activities
Just next to it is a beautiful beach, and the resort has rental gear for water activities.
Poster by AllPosters. Click on thumbnail to buy
Rainforest and Cyclones
The island is covered in dense rainforest, which was destroyed in both the 2006 Cyclone Larry and the 2011 Cyclone Yasi. Each time it takes it a few years to recover.
Bushwalk and the Lookout
There is a great bushwalk through the rainforest, that goes past the island's airport, then an artists' colony, some beaches, and through the rainforest up to the lookout point over the jetty and other islands of the Great Barrier Reef. It also goes past the grave of Edmund James Banfield - the most famous resident of the island who wrote some interesting books like The Confessions of a Beachcomber
, My Tropic Isle
, Tropic Days
and Last Leaves from Dunk Island
, which are a
great inshight to the
island, and generally the life in the tropics during the last century.
Here's a map of the island. You can double-click anywhere on the map to zoom it in and see the places closer. Drag the map to move around, and if you want to see the satellite image with Google Earth, click on "Sat" in the top right hand corner.
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